WASHINGTON, D.C. – The NAACP issued a March 6 statement supporting the National Association of Black Journalists’ (NABJ) call for a civil rights audit and examination of executive-level diversity at CNN.

The Why You? Initiative, Inc. ([YU?]) will host its Biannual Spring Confab to be held at InterContinental Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport Hotel, 5005 Glumack Dr., Minneapolis. The conference takes place March 29 and March 30. Formally called Confab, the conference draws individuals from various…

Insight News founder and editor-in-chief, Al McFarlane (right) interviewed Dorothy Bridges, former senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and former president of Franklin Bank. The interview is part of the Comcast's "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement" series. The …

Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Prosperity Now has partnered with the Northwest Area Foundation to share findings outlining the work of six community-centered financial stability projects to address the racial wealth divide.

Eight Black women are among the list of finalists to serve as members of Metropolitan Council, which recently selected finalists for each of the 16 council districts. The finalists will have an opportunity to provide public testimony at a public meeting scheduled for Feb. 13 at the Minneapol…

Minnesota’s capital city of Saint Paul now has an African-born person on its city council. That city’s council and mayor appointed Somali-American Kassim Busuri last week to take up a seat that opened up in December after the retirement of Dan Bostrom who had served for 22 years. Busuri will…

The Twin Cities is experiencing some of the coldest weather in a generation, and Comcast wants to make sure its customers – and members of the public – have a way to stay connected in emergencies or if they lose service as a result of the weather.

Reparations, police brutality, disrupting mass incarceration, and how Minnesota’s child welfare system hurts Black children and families are among the topics at a February conference dedicated to empowering civic engagement in Minnesota.

The NCAA Men’s Final Four is not merely a series of three basketball games; it’s four days of area-wide events bringing in upwards of 100,000 visitors pouring millions of dollars into the local economy.

The Fourth Judicial District’s Equal Justice Committee is partnering with the Hennepin County Bar Association and the University of St. Thomas School of Law on an upcoming continuing legal education (CLE) event.

The Hennepin County Board of scheduled a public hearing on the county's food protection ordinance for Tuesday, February 12, at 1:30 p.m. in room A-2400 of the Hennepin County Government Center. This ordinance establishes standards for the regulation of food establishments to protect the hea…

Voting January 15 as the Hennepin County Housing and Redevelopment Authority, the board elected District 2 Commissioner Irene Fernando as chair and District 5 Commissioner Debbie Goettel as vice chair of the authority.

The Hennepin County Board today awarded $1.6 million of Environmental Response Fund grants for nine projects to assess and clean up contaminated sites where added environmental costs hinder site improvements or redevelopment.

Bringing the conversation to the spot where people are perhaps most affected by the federal government shutdown – the airport – Rep. Ilhan Omar and others, including a TSA worker, called on President Donald Trump to reopen the government and get people back to receiving paychecks that don’t …

Derrick Johnson, president of NAACP, issued the following statement on federal Judge Jesse Furman’s ruling to block of the Trump Administration’s plan to put a question about citizenship on the 2020 census.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Vanita Gupta, president and CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, issued the following statement on the passage of H.Res. 41, a resolution Rejecting White Nationalism and White Supremacy.

BALTIMORE/ACCRA –NAACP President Derrick Johnson traveled to Ghana to meet with Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in support of the upcoming “Year of Return Ghana 2019” project, a year-long journey to celebrate the reconnecting of Africans throughout the Diaspora to their African heritage.

Washington, D.C. – The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) said the body is disappointed and disturbed about CBS News' recent announcement showcasing new hires for coverage of the 2020 Presidential election.